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UNO picked up Satinder Sartaaj for its campaign against Human Trafficking

Posted on February 9th, 2017

The album 'Music to Inspire' will be
available online tomorrow

Vancouver: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has
picked up Satinder Sartaaj under its project ‘Blue Heart Campaign’ against human
trafficking. The other Indian artists are AR Rehman and Sonu Nigam.

More than
30 artists around the world have united against human trafficking and released
an album ‘Music to Inspire’ by label Rukus Avenue who launched this album. The
world famous artists include Ozark Henry, Karmin, Joss Stone, Jack Atlantis,
Tisha Campbell, Steve London and Lee England. Mr.Sammy Chand who own label Rukus
Avenue informed that all proceeds would go to the United Nations Voluntary Trust
Fund for victims of trafficking in persons. The album was launched at UN Office
in New York by the
H.E. President of the General Assembly Peter Thompson. The album will be
available online tomorrow at iTunes, Amazon and Google play.

Indian folk singer Dr. Satinder Sartaaj is going to play a
major role in stopping and bringing awareness against illegal global human
trafficking which is known as modern day slavery. Human Trafficking is one of
the most shameful practices in present day and is also the genesis of child
labor and sexual slavery.

The horrifying figure of 168 million children who works as
laborers and 73 million under the age of 10 itself explains the seriousness of
the situation and calls for an urgent action to eradicate the human trafficking
from the face of the world.

Satinder Sartaaj explains that
the Blue Heart represents the sadness of those who are trafficked while
reminding us of the cold-heartedness of those who buy and sell fellow human
beings. There are 30 million slaves living under human trafficking and 80% are
women.

Satinder Sartaaj is going to make his Hollywood debut with
‘The Black Prince’, a movie based on the last king of Punjab, Maharaja Duleep
Singh.

The Blue Heart campaign seeks to encourage involvement and
inspire action to help stop this crime and also people to show solidarity with
the victims of human trafficking by wearing the Blue Heart. The campaign is also
an initiative for raising awareness to fight human trafficking and its impact on
society.

He informed that the project ‘Song of Hope’ was offered to
Sartaaj Foundation which is a charitable organization founded. The video of the
song will be released on next week. The mission of Sartaaj Foundation is to
reach out and help the talented youth in the fields of arts, culture, education
and sports, he said. “We are committed to being responsive to the needs of our
youth and young adults, cultivating their God-given talents and gifts and
enabling them to grow in their respective fields,” he said.